James Beaver Biography

James Beaver is an American actor, writer and film historian who was born and brought up as James Norman Beaver Jr in Laramie, Wyoming, U.S. He is famous to worldwide audiences as Bobby Singer in Supernatural. He also played Whitney Ellsworth on the HBO Western drama series Deadwood, which brought him acclaim and a Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination for Ensemble Acting and Sheriff Shelby Parlow on the FX series Justified.

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10 Quick Facts About James Beaver

1. Name: James Norman Beaver Jr
2. Age: 72 years
3. Birthday: 12 August
4. Zodiac Sign: Leo
5. Height: Average
6. Nationality: American
7. Occupation: Actor, writer and film historian
8. Marital Status: Married
9. Salary: Under Review
10. Net worth: $1.5 million dollars

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James Beaver Age

James is72 years old as of 2022, he was born on 12 August 1982, in Laramie, Wyoming, U.S. He celebrates his birthday on 12 August every year and his birth sign is Leo.

James Beaver Height

Beaver stands at an average height. He appears to be quite tall in stature if his photos, relative to his surroundings, are anything to go by. However, details regarding his actual height and other body measurements are currently not publicly available. We will update this section when the information is available.

James Beaver Weight

Beaver has a moderate weight.

James Beaver Education

James enrolled at Irving High School, he transferred in his senior year to Fort Worth Christian Academy. He graduated from Fort Worth Christian College and later joined Oklahoma Christian College.

James Beaver Family

James was born and raised by his parents James Norman Beaver and his mother Dorothy Adell in Laramie, Wyoming, US. He has three younger sisters namely; Denise, Reneé and Teddlie.

James Beaver Wife

Currently, James is happily married to Sarah Spiegel. The pair tied the knot on 20, June 2019. In 1973 he was married to Debbie Young, a fellow student and later they separated. In the year 1989, he married Cecily Adams. the pair were blessed with a kid by the name of Madeline. Cecily died of lung cancer in the year 2004.

James Beaver’s Net Worth

James has an estimated net worth of $1.5 million dollars as of 2022. This includes his assets, money and income. His primary source of income is his career as an actor, writer and film historian. Through his various sources of income, James has been able to accumulate good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle.

James Beaver Measurements and Facts

Here are some interesting facts and body measurements you should know about Beavers.

James Beaver Wiki

• Full Names: James Norman Beaver Jr
• Popular As: James Beaver
• Gender: Male
• Occupation / Profession: Actor, writer and film historian
• Nationality: American
• Race / Ethnicity:  Not Available
• Religion: Not Available
• Sexual Orientation: Straight

James Beaver Birthday

• Age / How Old?: 72 years
• Zodiac Sign: Leo
• Date of Birth: 12 August 1982
• Place of Birth: Laramie, Wyoming, U.S.
• Birthday: 12 August

James Beaver Body Measurements

• Body Measurements: Not Available
• Height / How Tall?: Average
• Weight: Moderate
• Eye Color: Not Available
• Hair Color: Not Available
• Shoe Size: Not Available

James Beaver Family and Relationship

• Father (Dad): James Norman Beaver
• Mother: Dorothy Adell
• Siblings (Brothers and Sisters): Three
• Marital Status: Married
• Wife/Spouse or Husband/Spouse: Married to Sarah Spiegel
• Dating / Girlfriend or Dating / Boyfriend: Not Applicable
• Children: Sons ( None) Daughter(s) (One)

James Beaver’s Net Worth and Salary

• Net Worth: $1.5 million dollars
• Salary: Under Review
• Source of Income: His career as an Actor, writer and film historian

James Beaver Career

In October 1972, Beaver made his professional stage debut while still a college student. After returning to Texas, he did a great deal of local theatre in the Dallas area, supporting himself as a film cleaner at a sixteen mm film rental firm and as a stagehand for the Dallas Ballet. In 1976, he joined the Shakespeare Festival of Dallas performing in numerous productions. He was commissioned by Actors Theatre of Louisville to write the first of three plays for the company Spades, Sidekick and Semper Fi and was twice a finalist in the theatre’s national Great American Play Contest for Once Upon a Single Bound and Verdigris.

Along with plays, he went ahead writing for film journals and for many years was a columnist, critic and feature writer for the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures magazine Films in Review. He worked steadily onstage in stock and on tour, simultaneously writing plays and investigating a biography of actor George Reeves a project which he still pursues between acting jobs. He appeared in starring work in such plays as The Hasty Heart and The Rainmaker in Birmingham, Alabama and The Lark in Manchester, New Hampshire, and toured the country as Macduff in Macbeth and in The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia.

During this time, he ghostwrote the book Movie Blockbusters for critic Steven Scheuer. He worked occasionally in small roles in films and television. He moved to Los Angeles, California in the year 1983, to go ahead investigating his biography of George Reeves. He worked for one year as the film archivist for the Variety Arts Center. Following a reading of his play Verdigris, he was requested to join the prestigious Theatre West company in Hollywood, where he went on as an actor and playwright. In 1985 Verdigris was produced to very good reviews and he was signed by the powerful Triad Artists agency.

He immediately started to work writing episodes of various television series, such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents he received a 1987 CableACE Award nomination for his very first TV script, for this show, Tour of Duty and Vietnam War Story. The Writers Guild of America strike fundamentally altered the freelance television writing market in the year 1988 and Beaver’s television writing career came to an abrupt halt. However, an opportunity meeting led to his being cast as the best friend of star Bruce Willis in Norman Jewison’s drama about Vietnam veterans, In Country and his acting career suddenly took up the slack where his television writing career had faltered.
He has appeared in several famous films, such as Sister Act, Sliver, Bad Girls, Adaptation, Magnolia and The Life of David Gale. He starred in the television series Thunder Alley as the comic sidekick to Ed Asner and as homicide cop Earl Gaddis on Reasonable Doubts. He was French Stewart’s sullen boss Happy Doug on the sitcom Third Rock from the Sun.
He was cast as one of the stars of the ensemble Western drama Deadwood in the role of Whitney Ellsworth, a gold miner whom he often explains as Gabby Hayes with Tourette syndrome. Ellsworth went from being a filth-covered reprobate to marrying the richest woman in town and becoming a beloved and stalwart figure in the community.

Originally Ellsworth did not have a first name, but when it became necessary to provide one, Beaver requested he is named Whitney Ellsworth, after the producer of George Reeves’s Adventures of Superman. He went on with his long investigation for the Reeves biography and in the year 2005 served as the historical and biographical consultant on the theatrical feature film about Reeves’s death, Hollywoodland. He joined the cast of the HBO drama John from Cincinnati while simultaneously playing the recurring roles of Bobby Singer on Supernatural and Carter Reese on another HBO drama Big Love, appearing at least once a season on Supernatural. He then took on the role of Sheriff Charlie Mills in the CBS drama Harper’s Island. He has recurred as the gun dealer Lawson on Breaking Bad and its prequel Better Call Saul and played Sheriff Shelby Parlow for 3 seasons on FX’s Justified.

Following his acclaimed work in Justified, he had a starring role in Guillermo del Toro’s gothic ghost story feature film, Crimson Peak, in a part del Toro wrote for him. He has also completed roles in the feature films The Frontier and Billy Boy. His performance in The Silence of Bees earned him the Best Actor Award at the 2010 New York Film and Video Festival. He was nominated for Best Guest Performance in a Drama by the Broadcast Television Journalists Association Critics Choice Awards in 2013 for his performance as Sheriff Shelby Parlow on Justified. He was on several industry prediction lists for the 2013 Emmy for that performance but was ultimately not nominated.
He wrote and directed the short film Night Riders, based on his play of the same name.
He was given the Lifetime Merit Award of the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema in 2014. He enrolled in acting with Clyde Ventura and Academy Award-winning actor Maximilian Schell. Theatre West presented a thirtieth-anniversary revival of Beaver’s play Verdigris, with Beaver in a starring role. Actress Maureen Stapleton portrayed the leading role in a workshop of Beaver’s play Verdigris in 1985 at the Berkshire Theatre Festival. He returned to the Festival to play Big Daddy in Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in June 2016.
He has played Secretary of Defense and U.S. presidential candidate Robert Singer on the Amazon series The Boys, produced by Eric Kripke, who gave a nod to his own Supernatural series by labeling the character after Beaver’s unrelated character on the earlier show.

James Beaver Filmography

• Semi-Tough
• The Seniors
• Warnings
• Nighthawks
• Girls of the White Orchid
• Silkwood

• File 8022
• Sweet Revenge
• Hollywood Shuffle
• Two Idiots in Hollywood
• Defense Play
• Turner & Hooch

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• The Cherry
• In Country
• El Diablo
• The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
• Little Secrets

• Sister Act
• Sliver
• Geronimo: An American Legend
• Twogether
• Blue Chips
• Children of the Dark

• Bad Girls
• Wounded
• At Sachem Farm
• Impala
• Ah! Silenciosa
• Magnolia

• Fraud
• Where the Heart Is
• Joy Ride
• Adaptation
• Wheelmen
• The Life of David Gale

• Wave Babes
• The Commission
• Next
• Cooties
• Reflections
• The Silence of Bees
• Dark and Stormy Night

• The Legend of Hell’s Gate: An American Conspiracy
• Night Riders
• The Frontier
• Crimson Peak

• Remember The Sultana
• Billy Boy
• Nightmare Alley

James Beaver Television

• Desperado
• Dallas
• Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
• Jake and the Fatman
• Divorce Court
• Matlock

• Paradise
• Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake
• CBS Summer Playhouse
• The Young Riders
• Mothers, Daughters and Lovers
• Follow Your Heart

• Midnight Caller
• Nasty Boys
• Father Dowling Mysteries
• Santa Barbara
• Reasonable Doubts
• Gunsmoke: To the Last Man

• Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
• Thunder Alley
• Gunsmoke: The Long Ride
• Home Improvement
• Unsolved Mysteries
• High Incident

• Murder One
• Bone Chillers
• Days of Our Lives
• NYPD Blue
• Moloney
• Spy Game

• Total Security
• Divided by Hate
• Melrose Place
• Pensacola: Wings of Gold
• Mr. Murder
• E! Mysteries & Scandals

• 3rd Rock from the Sun
• The X-Files
• Biography
• The Trouble with Normal
• That ’70s Show
• The Division

• Star Trek: Enterprise
• The West Wing
• Philly
• Warden of Red Rock
• Andy Richter Controls the Universe
• Six Feet Under

• Tremors
• The Lyon’s Den
• Monk
• Crossing Jordan
• Deadwood
• The Unit

• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
• Supernatural
• Day Break
• John from Cincinnati
• Big Love
• Criminal Minds

• Harper’s Island
• Law & Order: Los Angeles
• Psych
• The Mentalist
• Lie to Me
• Love Bites

• Breaking Bad
• Justified
• Dexter
• The Middle
• Mike & Molly
• Longmire

• Revolution
• Major Crimes
• NCIS
• The New Adventures of Peter and Wendy
• Better Call Saul
• Bones

• NCIS: New Orleans
• Timeless
• Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders
• Shut Eye
• The Ranch

• The Boys
• Watchmen
• Young Sheldon
• B Positive

James Beaver Plays

• The Cop and the Anthem
• Once Upon a Single Bound
• As You Like It, or Anything You Want To, Also Known as Rotterdam and Parmesan Are Dead
• The Ox-Bow Incident

• Spades
• Sidekick
• Semper Fi
• Verdigris

• Truth, Justice, and the Texican Way
• Pressing Engagements
• Mockingbird
• Night Riders

• The American Way
• Whigs, Pigs, and Greyhounds
• Lettering

James Beaver Magazine articles

• John Wayne
• George
• John Carradine
• James Stewart

• Steve McQueen
• Frank Perry
• Strother Martin
• Ad Glib

James Beaver Books

• John
• Movie Blockbusters
• Life’s That Way

Frequently Asked Questions About James Beaver

James Beaver Contacts

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• Twitter
• Facebook
• Youtube
• Tiktok
• Website

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